CHAPTER 16

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Data Services

Today’s systems are so disparate and large enterprises have a widely heterogeneous environment, with Windows and non-Windows platforms for application development. Developers, whether they are enterprise developers, web developers, ISV (Independent Software Vendor) developers or DBAs, have different needs and different ways of accessing the data that resides in SQL Server. For example ISV developers look for stability in the platform and enterprise developers look for rich development tooling experience and interoperability, whereas web developers want the latest rich development experience. Similarly what a PHP developer ...

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